2 Replies Latest reply on Jan 8, 2011 8:06 PM by tdyas

    Help for Appliance Automation

    boxgrinder_baby

      Hi Friends,

       

      I have installed Boxgrinder and all its prerequisites on my fedora 14 machine. It is working nicely and I am able to make the Boxgrinder builds from Appliance definition file (fedora-basic.appl) using the VMware plugin.

       

      I get the following files:

       

      f14-basic.raw

      f14-basic-enterprise.vmx

      f14-basic-enterprise.vmdk

       

      As of now, I manually copy these files to our VMWare Server and create a New Instance.

       

      But is there a way the build is automatically deployed in the Server and a new instance is created there?

       

      Can anyone help me with this?
      (And please pardon my ignorance)

       

      Thanks & Regards,
      Boxgrinder Baby

        • 1. Re: Help for Appliance Automation
          goldmann

          Hi,

           

          Doing this you'll create new server in VMware Server. Instead you need to import the appliance. To do this, please add an existing virtual machine to inventory. See this blog post for instructions. Let me know how it went!

           

          --Marek

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          • 2. Help for Appliance Automation
            tdyas

            VMware's ovftool can deploy instances right from the command line.  I use it to deploy images into an ESX server.  Just specify the VMware specific "vi" URL as the target.

             

            ovftool --datastore=DATASTORE_NAME --name="VM_NAME" --powerOn VMX_FILE vi://USER:PASSWORD@HYPERVISOR_FQDN_OR_IP

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